Flash Mob Riots: Crime in the Age of Twitter

by Keith Lee | Social Media

Crime, in the age of Twitter, comes to appear as a form of cartel – that needs busting. – Will Davies, Research Fellow at Oxford University, in reference to the on-going riots in London. Much has already been written about the role of social media in the...

See What Google Knows About You (And How To Make It Forget)

by Keith Lee | Google Plus

Click here Here’s a screenshot of mine below: Pretty accurate. Fortunately, you can opt out at the above page as well. Even better, you could go to the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt out tool here and opt out from dozens of advertising tracking...

Facebook You v. Real You or Why Personal Branding is Stupid

by Keith Lee | Facebook

I like to think of Facebook as this game where you try to see who can fabricate the most believable lie in a competition to see who has the best “life”. It’s like permanently showing off vacation photos with everyone you work with… From Comical Concept. Or an...

The Anticipation of Being Re-Tweeted

by Keith Lee | Twitter

I previously wrote about the gamification of social media services in a piece entitled: You’re Being Played By Twitter. The article touched on the use of engagement statistics and feedback loops in order to draw users deeper into the services provided. Essentially,...

Why You Should Pay Attention to Twitter During Trial Even If You Don’t Tweet

by Keith Lee | Social Media

From Reuters/ MSNBC: Over a three-week period in November and December, Reuters Legal monitored Twitter, reading tweets that were returned when “jury duty” was typed into the site’s search engine. Tweets from people describing themselves as...

SEO Is Crap

by Keith Lee | Social Media

Over at the Legal Blogging Group on Linked In, someone asked the following: “What are your best recommendations to enhance SEO? Have you found a particular method or series of steps to be particularly effective? To what extent do you interpret and utilize...